Author Archives: David Gray

Interview with Nancy Kieling of the Princeton Area Community Foundation on Donor Advised Funds

By David Gray | Published: April 11, 2012

Here is my interview with Nancy Kieling, one of the most informed and connected nonprofit leaders in central NJ! The topic is Donor Advised Funds, what they are and how they are used.

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Geniuses st Brookdale Community College, Really!

By David Gray | Published: March 27, 2012

The folks at Brookdale Community College are indeed brilliant.  I know this because they have asked me to come teach the Nonprofit Finance course as part of their Certificate in Nonprofit Management program! So you can all register for the program here. How much fun is a class in nonprofit finance?

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We Are On The Air!

By David Gray | Published: March 19, 2012

Nonprofit NJ Non-Profit NJ, Show 1.12 from Princeton Community Television on Vimeo. Our first show is now online. Philip Brown is a Chief Professional Officer at the United Way of Northern New Jersey. He has both an MBA and a MSW. Phil is a great guy  for a number of reasons… I like to think that [...]

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Nonprofit Scandals Can Be Prevented

By David Gray | Published: February 26, 2012

For organizations that are doing good, there has been a lot of bad being reported lately. I’m not talking about the political version of controversy like the recent Komen/Planned Parenthood dust-up. I’m talking about old fashioned criminal activity, people stealing from nonprofit organizations. I don’t think insider theft at nonprofit organizations is any more common [...]

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The End (of charitable giving) is Near!

By David Gray | Published: December 1, 2011

It often seems that we are worrying about something we can see but then get blindsided by something we never saw coming.  So it is with the demise of charitable giving as we know it. Many folks are focused on Congressional ineffectiveness in dealing with our budgetary morass, and fear (perhaps rightly) that the current [...]

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Shameless Self Promotion

By David Gray | Published: January 21, 2011

My new book, The Finance Arts Guide To Nonprofit Cash Flow, was recently featured in the Nonprofit Times Blog!

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Shameless Self Promotion

By David Gray | Published: December 6, 2010

With the publication of the Finance Arts Guide to Nonprofit Cash Flow I have been out and around promoting the book.  I am thrilled to have been asked by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to submit a guest blog article which you can access here. I also recently appeared on the internet radio program, the Not [...]

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Can You Pitch Planned Giving When The Donor Is Stoned?

By David Gray | Published: October 12, 2010

The New York Times reported on groups that grow medical marijuana and use the proceeds to support cultural projects, avoiding the need to seek donations. (Read the story here.) I generally don’t care much what people do in the privacy of their own homes as long as everyone involved consents, etc… but there is something [...]

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Let Us Celebrate Failure!

By David Gray | Published: August 20, 2010

One of the things we seldom admit to in the nonprofit world is that a project or idea failed. We talk about changing demographics, altered priorities, or changes in the funding landscape, but we don’t want to admit that something we put a lot of time and other people’s money into just simply failed. So [...]

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The Nonprofit Sector may be shrinking… without even trying!

By David Gray | Published: July 28, 2010

For those of us who study the nonprofit sector it sometimes appears that there are just too many nonprofit groups. Too many groups addressing similar issues, more groups than can be sustained by the available pool of users, subscribers, buyers or funders… and too many groups that can’t seem to afford to build a professional [...]

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